University of Iowa ranks 50th best in the nation for its graduate education program, study finds

The Iowa City school’s tuition was $16,257 per year for in-state, full-time students. The education school’s full-time student enrollment was 355.

The universities ranked by U.S. News were examined using weighted averages of 10 metrics, including a peer assessment by school deans, educational professionals’ assessments, student acceptance rates, verbal scores on standardized tests, doctoral degrees granted per year, research expenditures and student-faculty ratios.

U.S. News collected the data in fall of 2018 and earlier this year.

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Top Graduate Education Programs in the U.S.

Rank

School

City

Tuition (Doctorate)

Enrollment (Full-time)

1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Mass.

N/A

789

2

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

$1,628 per credit (full-time)

860

3 (tie)

Stanford University

Stanford, Calif.

$50,703 per year (full-time)

340

3 (tie)

University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles

$11,442 per year (in-state, full-time), $26,544 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

688

3 (tie)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison

$10,728 per year (in-state, full-time), $24,054 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

706

6

Vanderbilt University (Peabody)

Nashville, Tenn.

$1,967 per credit (full-time)

687

7 (tie)

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore

$43,923 per year (full-time)

594

7 (tie)

New York University (Steinhardt)

New York City

$41,424 per year (full-time)

630

7 (tie)

Teachers College, Columbia University

New York City

$1,635 per credit (full-time)

1,650

10

Northwestern University

Evanston, Ill.

N/A

166

11

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor

$23,578 per year (in-state, full-time), $47,624 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

524

12

University of Southern California (Rossier)

Los Angeles

$1,863 per credit (full-time)

938

13

University of Texas-Austin

Austin

$10,880 per year (in-state, full-time), $21,358 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

722

14 (tie)

University of Oregon

Eugene

$17,514 per year (in-state, full-time), $24,858 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

490

14 (tie)

University of Washington

Seattle

$16,392 per year (in-state, full-time), $30,232 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

667

16

Arizona State University

Phoenix

$11,136 per year (in-state, full-time), $22,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

726

17

University of Virginia (Curry)

Charlottesville

$25,840 per year (full-time)

548

18 (tie)

University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley

$11,442 per year (in-state, full-time), $26,544 per year (out-of-state, full-time)